BY PIETRO BERTINETTI, CIRCA 1838

细节

A fine North Italian cut-brass and ivory-inlaid rosewood centre-table
By Pietro Bertinetti, circa 1838
The rectangular top enclosing a squared octagonal panel to the centre, flanked to each side by an elongated hexagonal panel similarly banded and profusely inlaid with Corinthian ornament of winged classical figures, horses, floral garlands, and geometric foliate scrolls, signed to one side under a flowering urn P. BERTINETTI. 1838./FECE., the frieze to the front concealing two drawers with elaborate brass-inlaid escutcheons flanked by Seraphs, the sides and back with similarly decorated panelled frieze, above fluted column legs supported by winged gryphons, the side panels elaborately carved with scrollwork and moulded stretcher, joined by a foliate stretcher centred by a patera, on tapering acanthus-carved feet, the underside with two paper labels inscribed da me Pietro Bertinetti Fabricante/DI OGNI SORTA DI MOBILI MODERNI/Hella contrada di Lo e della Losta, casa Spanna. 1838
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 58 in. (148 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep

来源

Rainer Joseph (1783-1853), Archduke of Austria, Viceroy of Lombardy and Venice.
Thence by descent in the Habsburg-Lothringen family.
Sold Sotheby's London, 8 June 1984, lot 400.

出版

E. Colle, Il Mobile Impero in Italia: Arredi e Decorazioni D'Interni Dal 1800 al 1843, Milan, 1998, pp. 384-385.

注意事项

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拍品专文

Rainer Joseph was the son of Leopold II (1747-1792), Holy Roman Emperor and brother of Francis II (1768-1835) Holy Roman Emperor and, from 1804, Francis I, first Emperor of Austria.

There is some scholarly dispute over whether this table was purchased or gifted from the Milan or Turin 1838 Exhibition. Little biographical information on Bertinetti is available, however, the quality and execution of his inlay is certainly comparable with the work of later but better-known exponents of this technique, such as Giovanni Battista Gatti (d. 1889) and Ferdinando Pogliani, both of whose work in the Renaissance revival style flourished in the 1860s and 1870s.